Maria Avxentevskaya
Visiting Scholar (Nov 2023-Apr 2024)
Dr.
Maria Avxentevskaya (Auxent) specializes in the premodern history of science and medicine and the longue durée history of scientific communication, including humanism, semiotics, translation, rhetoric, persuasion, and networking. She received her doctoral degree from the Freie Universität Berlin (2015, with distinction) for her dissertation “How to Discover Things with Words? John Wilkins: From Inventio to Invention.” Her research has been supported by the Max Planck Society, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Herzog August Bibliothek, and the Warburg Institute.
Maria is currently working on the monograph Rhetoric and Persuasion in Early Modern English Science. Her publications include the forthcoming Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective, co-edited with Glenn W. Most (Brill, 2024) and Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation, co-edited with Katja Krause and Dror Weil (Routledge, 2022). Maria’s other projects include “The Word and the Brain: Early Modern Neuroscience of Rhetoric and Persuasion” and “The Physician’s Album Amicorum: Humanist Cultures of Knowledge Networking.” She has taught science communication, early modern science, and knowledge in translation at Bard College Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and the University of Sydney. Her science journalism pieces have been republished by the Independent and Scientific American.
Projekte
Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs
Past Events
Research Seminar
CANCELED: Premodern Conversations
MOREResearch Seminar
CANCELED: Premodern Conversations
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
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Open Access
MOREResearch Seminar
CANCELED: Premodern Conversations
MOREResearch Seminar
Premodern Conversations
MOREResearch Seminar
In the Beginning was the Plant: The Plant-Animal Continuity in Early Modern Medical Reception of Galen
MORESeminar
Premodern Conversations
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Géraud de Cordemoy on the Cartesian Theory of Animal Machines and the Use of Scripture
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Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation
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Modeling Premodern Theories of Mind
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The Poetry of Sanskrit Astronomy: The "King among Canons" by the One called "Eternal Bliss"
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Premodern Knowledge in Translation: Contemporary Historiographies
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The Vernacular Sciences in Southwest India
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Optical Diagrams as Paper Tools: Giambattista Della Porta and the Beginnings of Modern Optics
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and His Images and Draughtsmen
MORESeminar
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Science in a "Minor Language"
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